So, my money will be in "poorly communicated" option, and before someone crucifies me, let me explain...
I has never been a user of Adobe Creative Cloud or Creative Suite nor Photoshop. Adobe Lightroom suffices my need, after all, I'm just an amateur photographer. The first news I have to this change was while reading latests posts in LuLa using my phone. Of course, I ended up in that very long and famous thread about this issue. After that I went to read press releases, news on different blogs etc... basically Adobe is changing their license model from pay per license to pay per use, ok... I thought that if they start doing that for Lightroom maybe I need to take out my calculator while looking at the price of other alternatives like Capture One. But I saw no mentions of Lightroom anywhere, for their release of the Beta 5 I understood that next version will be perpetual license model etc...
Well, I thought that until I started to read the interviews of Adobe representatives trying to clarify things. Some of them started talking about two clear versions of Lightroom, one Lightroom standalone and Lightroom CC, some of them mentioning extra features only available for CC version. First reaction was, I don't like that, I don't like to have the feeling of getting just the "limited" edition, few seconds after that I started to think that probably it will mean only syncing with the Cloud (I just use Lightroom in my main computer... no gain here), and then, maybe it will need the CC for that iOS app that is being show around, no big loss in my mind for me.
Looks like I was not the only one thinking the same way, after all we have the thread
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=78130.0 , where Eric Chan points to the Lightroom Journal blog to clarify things and I was thinking, how the hell Adobe allows two different messages get out? One message were the VP is saying there is going to be two versions, second message were the official Adobe blog is saying that it is going to be just one version...